[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

(P.S Technically, the last sentence above is untrue, because Dr Peter Fenwick has done research indicating that consciousness can operate independently of the physical brain and is not localised in the body. This point will severely upset John Freestone, who believes in the mind-body connection but would really prefer that the mind stick strictly to the body and not go off on its own jaunts around the rest of reality. But let's not get too pedantic).

Oh, a Peter Fenwick link for you guys.

Dr. Peter Fenwick, M.D.: Science and Spirituality

To understand my point about consciousness operating independently of the physical brain, click on the link and go to pages 4 and 5, focusing on parts like these:

The flat electroencephalogram (EEG), indicating no brain activity during cardiac arrest, and the high incidence of brain damage afterwards both point to the conclusion that the unconsciousness in cardiac arrest is total. You cannot argue that there are ‘‘bits’’ of the brain that are functioning; there are not. There is a confusional onset and offset, and there is no brain-based memory functioning. Everything that constructs our world for us is, in fact, ‘‘down.’’ There is no possibility of the brain creating any images. Memory is not functioning during this time, so it should be impossible to have clearly structured and lucid experiences, and because of brain damage, memory should be significantly impaired, and you should not be able to remember any experiences which occurred during that time. Now, that raises interesting and difficult questions for us, because the NDErs say that their experiences occur during unconsciousness, and science maintains that this is not possible.